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Health and Social Care workers across Wales are increasing their confidence to use the Welsh language with patients and colleagues, thanks to a Welsh Government programme to strengthen language choice within the health service.

Community groups across Wales can now apply for grants of up to £10,000 to help them start a social business or community-led housing project.

The public are being asked to help safeguard Welsh language place names, as part of new plans to protect our linguistic heritage.

The free Get Welsh Words website answers the common question "What's the Welsh word for...?"

Record numbers of people are taking up Welsh lessons in the Wrexham area, with 640 people having completed a course in 2023-24. This is up 82% since 2017-18.

The First Minister will celebrate Wrexham’s new-found success as a global cultural and sporting destination as she visits the National Eisteddfod today.

Landmark legislation to ensure all children in Wales get the opportunity to become confident Welsh speakers has today received Royal Assent, becoming law.

Welsh, Cornish, Scottish Gaelic and Irish language speakers have been part of a pioneering exchange programme celebrating their shared linguistic heritage.

Welsh Language Secretary Mark Drakeford visited Ysgol Henry Richard in Tregaron, praising its progress toward Welsh-medium education.

Areas with high numbers of Welsh speakers will get extra support to strengthen the language in our communities, after Ministers accepted recommendations from a report.

The Senedd has passed landmark legislation to give all children across Wales the opportunity to confidently speak Welsh, regardless of their background or the language of the school they attend.

A new platform is helping children read Welsh, even if their parents can’t, by teaching them how to pronounce words.